Steve Newman: very tiny wild things
Spotted in the LA times today is news that Miniatures and VFX DOP Steve Newman is doing “speccy work”on Where The Wild Things Are the upcominig feature from Spike Jonze
Steve is one of our earliest cinematography grads and has also taught here over the years….. the piece reports [...]
Following its world premiere at Cannes earlier this year, Jane Campion’s Bright Star has now sold to:
+ Atlantic Film for Scandinavia
+ SSG for Taiwan
+ Babilla for Colombia
+ Phars for the Middle Wast
+ PT Camila for Indonesia
+ Golden Village for Singapore
+ Myndform for Iceland
+ Vertigo for Spain
and to
+ Bull Pohlad and Bob Berneys new distribution venture [...]
Simon de Bruyn, over at IF, reported today that box office takings for AFTRS graduate Warwick Thornton’s award winning Samson & Delilah is “steaming towards $2m” with expectations it will hit the two million dollar milestone this weekend……
As Simon points out in his post, the track record to date for Thornton’s feautre debut, being [...]
AFTER 62 years of the Cannes Film Festival, AFTRS alumni Jane Campion is still the only woman to have won the Palme D’Or, the festival’s top award — in 1993, for The Piano and 2009 sees Campion in competition again for the same award with her latest feature project Bright Star, an Australian-British [...]
Friday on My Mind at AFTRS is an opportunity to wind up the working week with a little insight and inspiration – supplied by some of the best and brightest in the screen arts and broadcast industry.
Every week we see different guest speakers explore topical issues in the screen arts and broadcast world in the [...]
Award winning documentary Undressing Vanessa made by recent AFTRS graduates Matthew Pond and Tina Lymberis, while they were students at the School, screens this week on SBS – Saturday March 7.
Undressing Vanessa is a documentary about the unlikely journey of a suburban Aussie boy – Tobin Saunders – who after being inspiredby his mother’s 1970’s [...]
Award-winning director-cinematographer Warwick Thornton – a cinematography graduate of AFTRS – has crafted a poignant story about two Aboriginal teenagers living in a remote community in the Northern Territory described in the Age today by Paul Kalina as
” a film of delicate simplicity and gut wrenching power”
The film had its [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiYoM76UFCA
AFTRS grads Sandy Widyanata & Courtney Wise are flying out to LA tomorrow.
The pair will be attending the Visual Effects Society (VES) Awards after being nominated for ‘Outstanding Effects in a Student Project’ for their AFTRS short Plastic.
It’s a great honour & we wish them well for the awards ceremony on Feb 21.
We’ll keep you [...]
The MPSE ‘Golden Reel’ Verna Fields Awards are probably the world’s most prestigious peer-reviewed Sound awards. Nominations for the 2009 MPSE ‘Golden Reel’ Verna Fields Awards have just been announced, with AFTRS productions accounting for an outstanding 3 out of the 6 Student films nominated.
The AFTRS shorts nominated are:
- CUPID
- FOUR
- STREET ANGEL
Awesome achievement for [...]
With shooting currently underway in Broome on an adaptation of the iconic Bran Nue Dae, stage musical – Australia’s first Aboriginal musical – spearheaded by AFTRS graduate (Producing 1996) Rachel Perkins’ and the recent announcement that fellow AFTRS graduate (Screenwriting 1990) Tony Ayres is penning a script inspired by the [...]
